Thanks A930, up and over won't work for my internal layout, doors will be 4 folding doors per side that slide behind each pillar. I'll make them myself from reclaimed oak beams, really looking forward to it too!
Mrs Ahab has been busy lowering the boundary and last wall, same as before dig down, dig under, cut/chisel back old footings, pour new concrete footing, build up new stone to match old stone
Hard to imagine this used to be a waist high dry stone wall when we bought the house, combination of rebuilding it taller and lowering the village it's now a lot higher than I can reach on tip toes!
Finally got round to doing the stone reveal's (vertical return to meet the internal wall) and stone sills for the rear windows, still have the front to do. Doesn't look like much work but a lot of vertical distance was traveled to make sure each stone was a good fit
Started on lowering the driveway, easy peasy for a man with a mini excavator but I need the exercise as I sit on my a$$ all day so it's small demolition hammer, shovel and bucket for me. I have a cunning plan for getting rid of the spoil heap
An hour an evening is quite a work out!
Waved goodbye today to my faithful 16" Husqvarna stone chop saw, sold for a great price, quite sad seeing it go, easily spent 2.5 months of my life happily chopping away with it, really got my money's worth out of that buy